Type-channel holder.



Patented Mar. 4', i902.

, A. I .0W-&. J. BREAKEY.

TYPE CHANNEL HOLDER.

(Applicatilp lnd Aug. 28, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW AND JAMES BREAKEY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TO ALDEN TYPE MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

TYPE-CHANNEL HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,488, dated March 4, 1902. Application filed August 26, 1901. Serial No. 73,270. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it kn own that we, ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW and JAMES BREAKEY, citizens of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in'the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Ohannel Holders, of vwhich the following is a specication sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains tov make and use the same.

Our invention relates to type-channel hold-n ers for use in type-distributing apparatus. These holders are applied to the end of the Atype-containing channels prior to their insertion into the distributer and afford a means of holding and centralizing the type-containing channel over and with relation to the intermediate channel through which the types are raised by the action of. lifters below, as is well known in the Alden and similar styles of type-distributing machines.

Our invention relates more particularly to a special form of holder to he applied to theV end of the type-containing channel hereinaf-` ter described; and the invention consists in the special arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed specifically.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of our improved holder; Figs. 2 and 3, respectively, isometrical views of the opposite sides of the lower end of the form of type-containing channel to which our holder is to be applied. Fig. 4 is a central vertical section, partly in elevation, of our improved holder; Fig. 5, a similar view 'showing the channel in position; Fig. 6, a vertical section on plane of line 6 6, Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 4t with the spring-latches and spring-plate omitted.

C represents a type-containing channel, the rear Wall or spine of which is formed with a comparatively narrow vertical slot c, through which the reciprocating pusher in the typesetting apparatus enters. The front edge of the type-containing channel C is formed with a slot c for the full width of the interior of the channel to allow the types to be pushed out of the channel, as set forth in Letters Patent No. 653,142, dated July 3, `1900, to which fsystem of type -setting the channel herein set forth is especially adapted. It will be seen that this front opening or slot c creates a space at the lower end of the channel, affording no protection against the movement of the types lengthwise in that direction, their movement lengthwise in the opposite direction being prevented by the narrowness of ythe slot c.

The holder H consists, essentially, of a rectangular sleeve fitting over the lower end of the type-containing channel O and provided with lateral spring-latches Z, which support the channel, as heretofore. The new feature of our present structure consists in the use of the spring-plate S, which engages with the slot c in the channel and performs the double'function of locking the channel in place and of forming a continuation of the inner surface of the front wall of the channel. In the drawings the spring-plate S is shown as resting in a recess h in the front edge of the holder H. The edges of the spring-plate are rabbeted to fit and overlap the edges of the slot c', the faces s when in position coinciding with the plane of the inner surface of the front wall of the channel, as shown in Fig. 5. Springs s' s' are so arranged as to tend constantly to hold the plate S in its normal position, from whichit is retracted when desired by means of the headed pin-l?.v lt will thus be'seen that the plate S not only locks the channel firmly in position against vertical movement in either direction, but also completely closes the front slot c in the channel, forming a smooth even guide for the faces of the type and preventing their entrance into the recess h of the holder.

What we claim as our'invention, and de'- sire to secure by Letters Patent, isr

1. The combination with a type-containing channel O, formed with the front opening c', of the whole width of the interior of the channel, of the holder H, formed with the recess h, and the spring-plateS, for engaging with stantially in Iche manner and for the purpose described.

ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW. JAMES BREAKEY.

Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, JOHN KIRN. 

